[LinuxUsers] Ext3(/ext2) FileSystem support on Windows Vista

[David Kaiser]

Thanks Brian,  I'm glad to hear that EXT3 works on MacOSX too.  That's
good to know.

Over the years (and as the FAT filesystem shows it's age,) I have asked
about a best strategy for moving large volumes between multiple
operating systems.  Most often someone tells me about NTFS3G and how I
should standardize my Firewire drives on NTFS and how well it works on
Linux, but I haven't found this to be as straightforward as it should
be - the permissions model is interesting, and I have to mount it with
special flags for regular users to get to the files, etc.

I'm quite heavily leaning towards standardizing my external drives on
EXT3 at this point.  I know now that I can load a driver for Linux,
Windows and MacOSX that all support reading and writing EXT3 (and
obviously ext2)  Also, being open-source, EXT3 won't just magically go
away when EXT4 starts to be available in the coming months and years.

I guess my thoughts are that it usually works best to integrate a certain
amount of open-source support (drivers/apps/etc) into a
closed/proprietary OS like developing EXT3 for Windows and MacOSX rather
than the alternative, which is to integrate a closed/proprietary
technology into an open-source OS (such as NTFS into Linux).

In fact, the "if you have to use windows" strategy for me already
includes, at a mandatory minimum:  Cygwin, OpenOffice, Firefox,
Thunderbird, Gimp, Gvim.  Maybe the extfsd is just added to that list
and I'll keep a flash drive around to provide these open apps/drivers
to Windows systems I need to use.


On 10/29/2008, "Brian Friday" <brian.friday at gmail.com> wrote:

>Since you've put up the Vista drivers I will add a addendum for the
>Mac Versions as well.
>
>http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx/
>
>I recommend not allowing automount and I have not used the non read
>only but this works pretty well for my needs.
>
>- Brian
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